[format recovered] On Friday, 21 January 2011 at 0:04:12 +0000, Mike Adams wrote: > To whom it may concern: I'm using a programme called tempcontrol > from Greg Lehey on a Dell pentium running BSD 6.
Do you mean FreeBSD 6.x? I'm assuming so in the following. > When I run the programme, I get the above error. ls /dev shows that > there is no cuaa0, only cuad0. I see that this was changed to > standardize naming conventions. I've tried sh makedev cuaa0, but > get the errorCan't open makedev: no such file or directory. makedev is obsolete. > I should be most grateful if someone can get me over this problem The device you're looking for is either /dev/ttyd0 or (probably) /dev/cuad0. Quite possibly either would work. Set it in your temperaturecontrolrc file. Let me know if it works, and I'll update the sources. On Friday, 21 January 2011 at 12:51:25 +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:04:12 +0000, Mike Adams <mike.adams2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I've tried sh makedev cuaa0, but get the errorCan't open >> makedev: no such file or directory. > > I think "sh MAKEDEV" would be the correct call. From MAKEDEV(8): DESCRIPTION The MAKEDEV script was deprecated by devfs(5) and removed from FreeBSD after devfs(5) became mandatory. Basically, it can't work because the meaning of major and minor numbers has changed. > You could try to add a line like > > link cuad0 cuaa0 > > to /etc/devfs.conf and then > > # /etc/rc.d/devfs restart That would be the wrong solution. Programs that come in source can be modified, and in this case the program provides for alternative device names. > but I may be possible that the program you're intending to use does > require the "conventional" serial driver ... I'm not aware of any such program. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/email/signed-mail.php for more details. If your Microsoft MUA reports problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua
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